Bowl

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Object Name: 
Bowl
Place Made: 
Eastern Mediterranean
possibly Palestine
possibly Syria
Accession Number: 
79.1.189
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 5.4 cm; Rim Diam: 8.3 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
300-399
Credit Line: 
Gift of The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation
Primary Description: 
Bowl. Transparent pale green glass; greenish blue trails. Blown; applied. Bowl: bell-shaped Rim plain, with rounded lip; wall curves in at bottom; base has flared tubular foot-ring made by folding, and kick; pontil mark consists of fragment of translucent greenish-blue glass. On wall, one trail spirally wound five times above one continuous zigzag trail.

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Department: 
Ancient
Provenance: 
Strauss Memorial Foundation, Ruth Bryan, Source
1979-03-25
Category: 
Roman
Color: 
green
blue
Technique: 
glassblowing
applied decoration
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (1)

Glass Drinking Vessels from the Strauss Collection
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1955-06-13 through 1955-10-23

Publications (7)

Extending Exhibits in the Museum Store (2003) illustrated, p. 37; BIB# AI57824
Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, Volume Two (2001) illustrated, pp. 140-141, pl. 649; BIB# 58895
Seasons Greetings from Sherry-Lehmann (1990/11) illustrated, p. 44; BIB# 90994
A Short History of Glass (1990 edition) (1990) illustrated, p. 24, #10; p. 23; BIB# 33211
Stained Glass: Jewels of Light (1988) illustrated, p. 22; BIB# 59584
A Short History of Glass (1980 edition) (1980) illustrated, p. 20, #10; BIB# 21161
Glass Drinking Vessels: From the Collections of Jerome Strauss and The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation: a Special Exhibition, 1955 (1955) p. 24, #40; BIB# 27783